Kao-Ping Chua
@kaopingchua
Data-driven pediatrician and health policy researcher @UMich studying opioids, out-of-pocket costs, unnecessary care, child health. MD (Wash U), PhD (Harvard)
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Changes in the Appropriateness of U.S. Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing after the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of 2016-2021 Data
✅ Just Accepted
✍️ Kao-Ping Chua
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Important new findings from Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, FASA 🇺🇸 Kao-Ping Chua & team at U-M IHPI
X-waiver requirement elimination led to⬆️in no. of buprenorphine prescribers increased, but little impact of Rx initiations or total no. of patients using buprenorphine
NEW in NEJM from Kao-Ping Chua Thuy Nguyen & colleagues:
A look at how things have changed in use of medication to treat opioid addiction in the year since the X waiver requirement was suddenly removed: ihpi.umich.edu/news/its-easie…
NEW this morning in Clinical Infectious Diseases from Kao-Ping Chua & colleagues:
1 in 4 antibiotic prescriptions are dispensed for conditions that the drugs can't treat - including COVID-19.
And trends aren't going the right way.
More: ihpi.umich.edu/news/rise-seen… #abx
#Antidepressant dispensing to adolescents and young adults was already high and rising before March 2020. A new study led by Mott Children's MD pediatrician Kao-Ping Chua suggests these trends accelerated during the pandemic: michmed.org/GqKDZ